Example sentences of "to their eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ , of course , can be read as a lament for the undeveloped mind : ‘ But knowledge to their eyes her ample page / Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll … |
| 2 | They stood there with their aprons to their eyes . |
| 3 | Several jurors dabbed handkerchiefs to their eyes , and tears slid down Mr Lozano 's cheeks . |
| 4 | Supp. , and the nancy poets and the Archbishop of Canterbury and Comrade X , author of Marxism for Infants — all of us really owe the comparative decency of our lives to poor drudges underground , blackened to their eyes , with their throats full of coal dust , driving their shovels forward with arms and belly muscles of steel . |
| 5 | To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead . |
| 6 | Many other insects have a shift in colour vision similar to the bee 's , and flowers have evolved to be attractive to their eyes . |
| 7 | Frye 's quivering body slumped and then , turning slightly as he was sucked into the wall as if into some vertical view of a bizarre quicksand , he was quickly absorbed — the wall closing around him ; unmarked and to their eyes , as solid and impenetrable as ever . |
| 8 | What would they think if Johnny were to sit casually on a chair which , to their eyes , simply was n't there ? |
| 9 | Fornicators , ’ Corbett threw a sly glance at Ranulf , ‘ up to their necks , adulterers and traitors up to their eyes . ’ |
| 10 | They 're up to their eyes in work . |
| 11 | because they must be up to their eyes in debt |
| 12 | Yeah , they 're up to their eyes in there |
| 13 | They 're up to their eyes in it , you ca n't ask them while they 're , they 're |